PD Dr. Michael Flohr

    If you indeed want the men of the world not to loose the qualities that are natural to them, you had best study how it is that Heaven and Earth maintain their external course, that the sun and moon maintain their light, the stars their serried ranks, the birds and beasts their flocks, the trees and shrubs their station. Thus you shall learn to guide your steps by Inward Power, to follow the course that the Way of Nature sets; and soon you will reach a goal where you will no longer need to go round laboriously advertising goodness and duty, like the town-crier with his drum, seeking for news of a lost child. […]
    All this talk of goodness and duty, these perpetual pin-pricks, unnerve and irritate the hearer; nothing, indeed, could be more destructive of his inner tranquility. […]
    The swan does not need a daily bath in order to remain white; the crow does not need a daily inking in order to remain black.

(Lao-tse, chiding Confucius for his moralizing)